[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] names

[Jerry Frank]

At 04:46 PM 22/04/2006, Günther Böhm wrote:
>Lloyd Friedrick schrieb:
>
> >Here are two family names...........Hartmann .....  Kupferstein
> >Would these be common Jewish family names in Poland - Volhynia ?
> >
>Lloyd,
>yes, definitely. HARTMANN has more than 1000 records in the
>www.yadvashem.org database, KUPFERSTEIN 783 records.
>
>Guenther



However, to reiterate a discussion that took 
place here a year or so ago, this does not mean 
that Lloyd's family has any Jewish 
connections.  My Frank surname also has more than 
1000 hits on that database but they were not 
Jews.  Jews did not use surnames until forced to 
do so in the late 1700s.  It is therefore far 
more likely that they adapted or adopted your 
surname than that we descend from them.

I am not, by the way, anti Jewish.  I just don't 
think we should get side tracked into Jewish 
research unless documentation leads us there.




Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca